Explorer Ben Cropp has set off
on a six week mission to find a 500-year-old cannon which will prove for the
first time Portuguese sailors were the first to land in Australia in the early
1520s.
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23 September 2014
This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Dried-up dams, boats at bottom of reservoirs and rapidly shrinking lakes.
Extraordinary images of the devastating drought in the West
One of the worst droughts in
history has ravaged parts of the country, including Sacramento, California
(pictured), and forecasters are predicting it is likely to carry on until the
end of the year.
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23 September 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
President Bush and the 'Twin Towers'.
'Anything of interest this morning?': Declassified documents describe George Bush's eerily uneventful security briefing just minutes before the first plane hit the Twin Towers on 9/11
At 8.21am, four minutes before the meeting ended, the first of four hijacked planes’ transponders went off, marking the beginning of the horror of September 11 2001.
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22 September 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
At the Annual Book-Fare, BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Signing my latest book 'Tales of an enchanted boyhood - 1940 to 1960, Alupola to Jaffna'.
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Hi
Philip
You
can have a big laugh indeed.
Please
share with our batch mates
Regards
From
Nana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0bWq05h6w4
Charith Sena Nanayakkara
The seductress who bewitched our trainee spies into spilling secrets.
Noreen Rois was in Churchill's
secret WWII Special Operations Executive, seducing trainee spies near
headquarters at the Beaulieu estate in Hampshire.
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21 September 2014
The menopause could be eliminated in 20 years, scientist predicts.
Stem cell scientist Aubrey de Grey said that rapid progress in stem cell and regenerative therapies meant that current age limits on when women can conceive and give birth were likely to vanish.
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21 September 2014
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